Closer is the third play written by English playwright Patrick Marber. The play was premiered at the Royal National Theatre's Cottesloe Theatre in London in 1997, and made its North American debut at the Music Box Theatre on Broadway on 25 January 1999.
Closer was first performed at the Royal National Theatre in London 22nd of May, 1997; it was the third play written by Patrick Marber. Closer has drawn comparisons with Harold Pinter’s Betrayal an...
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Closer is the third play written by English playwright Patrick Marber. The play was premiered at the Royal National Theatre's Cottesloe Theatre in London in 1997, and made its North American debut at the Music Box Theatre on Broadway on 25 January 1999.
Closer was first performed at the Royal National Theatre in London 22nd of May, 1997; it was the third play written by Patrick Marber. Closer has drawn comparisons with Harold Pinter’s Betrayal and Les Liaisons Dangereuses in its intricate focus on the politics of four people trading partners for lust.
A young man, Dan, takes a young woman to the hospital after she has been hit by a taxi; they flirt as they wait for the doctor to attend to her bloodied knee. Larry, a doctor in dermatology, inspects her leg briefly and leaves. Dan and the young woman introduce themselves—he is Daniel Woolf, an obituary writer and failed author who teaches her about the use of euphemisms—his is “reserved,” hers, “disarming.” She is Alice Ayres, a self...
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